The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-02-17
Board of Trade,


meeting of the Board of Trade wa
held at the Office of the secretary,
and it was well attended. These
meetings are not only of inestimable
value, but they are peculiarly pleas
ant, and are doing much In the direc-
ton of establishing more cordial
feeling among our business men.
But they should be larger, very much
larger. Every business man in Sank
Centre should attend regularly. No
matter how extensive or how diminu.
tive the business, the purpose of the
board is to make it more prosperous
by building up the public welfare,
and in this all have a common inter.
est.
At the meeting on Monday Gov.
Barto of the committee appointed to
look after the matter of presenting
the bills for the establishment Of Il
term of the district court here and
for the division of the county re-
ported that he met Judge Collins
the state capitol and they agreed up
on court bill which provides for
holding an adjourned term of the
District court here in Tune and De.
cember of each year, with trial jury.
The bill provides that the mileag &c
for serving papers, subpenaing wit
nesses, etc., for such term shall be
reckoned from Sank Centre. 1t is
obvious this method will very
materially decrease the expenses of
litigation in the District court. Gov.
Barto said that 1t was thought best
that the two bills be offered in the
honse, and they were accordingly en-.
trusted to Hon. Kettel Halvorson
who presented them on Thursday
last and they were referred TO the
Stoarns County delegation. Senator
Keller was called in to confer with
Messrs Collins and Barto, and the
Judge Collins incidentally remark ed
that there was opposition to the court
bill in St. Cloud but in what quarter is
not known. Representative Freeman,
however, has declared himself in
favor of both bills. The matter was
freely discussed by the mem bers of
the board, and the development of
any active opposition will be watcbe ed
with some thing more than passive
interest. The responsibility will be
as definitely fixed as possible, and
will not soon be forgotten. At least
such was the tenor of the discussion.
1t was finally moved that a COM
mittee consisting of Messrs Petit.
Moore, Sprague and Foster be ap-
pointed to 90 to St. Paul, if neces-
sary, and urge the passage of both
measures and the following pre-.
amble and resolutions were adopted,
and the committee restricted to pre-
sent the document to the Stearns
county delegation: =
WHEREAS is now pending.
in the legislature,tw two bills of vital i'm.
portance to every resident and tax
payer of Western Stearns county, To-
wit: The bill for division of Stearns
county, and the bill to establish an
adjourned term Of the District court
OF the Seventh Judicial district, at
Sank Centre, .. -.
AND WHEREAs-The provisions of
said bills have been submitted to,
AGREED upon, and approved by com
mittees appointed ny said Board, and
by citizens of st. Cloud;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That
this Hoard expects and respeGtfully
requests and emphatically urges all
the members of the legislature from
Stearns county, that they use their
best endeavors to procure the enact
ment into law of said bills.
The committee of the board ap-
pointed to confer with q like commit.
tee from the village council to per:
feet plan for remaining the streets.
reported through Mr.. Petit. The
report Was substantially that printed
in the HERALD last week. After.
discussion of the system, it was re-
solved to reeommit the report, with
the suggestion that the streets be
numbefed from north to south, as:
suggested by the committee, and that
the other streets he named in place
Of lettered.
The Board then adjourned until 8
4. ~, next AendaF: